[rta53]

Ok this is really strange. Last night I was watching NCIS LA which I had recorded last week I believe. About halfway through the program I noticed the sound changed. Almost sounded like an echo or reverb. I didn't think anything of it until a few seconds later when I started hearing a voice that was not coming from the actors. It was like an additional audio track like you can hear on a dvd such as a director's commentary. The voice would say things like "Callen lowers his eyes slowly". Or when 2 of the agents were confronting some bad guys she would say "the agents spot another gangster in the kitchen and one of them shoots him in the chest". This went on for the remainder of the show. At one point the commentator even referred to agent Hanna as the "bald agent". By the end of the show it was getting rather annoying. Anyone ever heard of or experienced this before?

 

[dpeters11]

Sounds like descriptive audio service on the secondary audio program. Many use SAP for Spanish language (causing many to think the S stands for Spanish), but some use it for descriptions for use by the visually impaired.

 

[rta53]

Sounds like descriptive audio service on the secondary audio program. Many use SAP for Spanish language (causing many to think the S stands for Spanish), but some use it for descriptions for use by the visually impaired.

That's what I suspected. I wonder if it's just a glitch or did I do something to cause it?

 

[rrdirectsr]

That's what I suspected. I wonder if it's just a glitch or did I do something to cause it?

Did you record the show? I would be curious to see if changing settings would give you different results.

EDIT = Sorry I should have read closer. I see you recorded it.

 

[fleckrj]

I can get CBS OTA from my local affiliate in Raleigh, NC and from the affiliate in Greensboro, NC. I noticed the descriptive audio track on the Greensboro channel, but not on the Raleigh channel, and only on NCIS LA (although I do not watch the Greensboro station that often). I have not heard it on anything I have received from DirecTV, but I have not tried switching to the secondary audio. I wonder if some CBS affiliates broadcast the descriptive track on the primary audio either by mistake or on purpose.

 

[rta53]

I can get CBS OTA from my local affiliate in Raleigh, NC and from the affiliate in Greensboro, NC. I noticed the descriptive audio track on the Greensboro channel, but not on the Raleigh channel, and only on NCIS LA (although I do not watch the Greensboro station that often). I have not heard it on anything I have received from DirecTV, but I have not tried switching to the secondary audio. I wonder if some CBS affiliates broadcast the descriptive track on the primary audio either by mistake or on purpose.

That's very interesting. I am in the Greensboro DMA. My guess is it's just a mistake since it started part way through the show.

BTW, I grew up north of Wake County and we always watched Ch 5. I could even get Ch. 5 here in Alamance county while it was still analog. Not so with digital. I actually wish I could switch to the Raleigh DMA do I could get WRAL.

 

[LORETTA]

It sounds like one of the transmissions designed for customers who are blind.

 

[fleckrj]

That's very interesting. I am in the Greensboro DMA. My guess is it's just a mistake since it started part way through the show.

BTW, I grew up north of Wake County and we always watched Ch 5. I could even get Ch. 5 here in Alamance county while it was still analog. Not so with digital. I actually wish I could switch to the Raleigh DMA do I could get WRAL.

I am from Kentucky, but I have lived in Cary since 1978. I have trouble getting WRAL since the switch to digital, and I am only 17 miles from their tower. Interestingly, I can get WRAZ (Fox 50), which is broadcast from the same tower as WRAL with no problem. WRAL is on RF frequency 48 and WRAZ is on RF frequency 49. I still do not know why I can get one but not the other. I can often get WFMY (virtual channel 2, RF channel 51) better than I get WRAL off the air even though WFMY is nearly three times as far away and is coming from the back side of my antenna.

I preferred WNCT (channel 9) from Greenville as my CBS source, though, because they actually broadcast the SEC basketball games. WRAL and WFMY pre-empt the national CBS games to show the regional broadcast of the ACC games (and then the national broadcast of the ACC games on ESPN is blacked out for us). Unfortunatelly, since the switch to digital, I can no longer receive WNCT.

 

[jlangleyrn]

Wow its a NC grouping in here. I live in Greenville and before switching to DIRECTV, I was able to watch WRAL and absolutely loved their news, while WNCT is no where near as good for the news. I can understand the desire to watch the games on WNCT, but otherwise I wish I could change my viewing to WRAL.

 

[fleckrj]

Wow its a NC grouping in here. I live in Greenville and before switching to DIRECTV, I was able to watch WRAL and absolutely loved their news, while WNCT is no where near as good for the news. I can understand the desire to watch the games on WNCT, but otherwise I wish I could change my viewing to WRAL.

WTVD (ABC 11) news is better than either. Except for NCIS, NCIS LA, and the SEC basketball and football games, we never watch WRAL.

 

[rta53]

WTVD (ABC 11) news is better than either. Except for NCIS, NCIS LA, and the SEC basketball and football games, we never watch WRAL.

You must not have ever watched Ch 2 then.

 

[fleckrj]

You must not have ever watched Ch 2 then.

Only for NCIS or NCIS LA if I am watching OTA and 2 comes in better than 5. Like 5, 2 preempts the SEC games for the ACC games. Given their contempt for the SEC, I was somewhat surprised that they did not preempt the NCAA championship game last night

 

[mobandit]

On some of my recordings (NCIS, NCIS LA) I do occasionally hear the descriptive audio, but usually only for a second or two...